Howl at the Moon by Christine Warren

Author:Christine Warren [Warren, Christine]
Format: epub
Tags: Demonoid Upload 2
ISBN: 9780312947903
Publisher: Lisa's E-Book Collection
Published: 2007-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

Graham took the news about as well as Walker expected, which meant that his bellow would have the

police department in Albany fielding noise-disturbance calls for the rest of the night. Even the normally

stabilizing influence of his luna didn't seem to be helping keep him calm. Walker had to wait until the

walls stopped shaking before he managed to get the rest of the story out, and even then, Graham jumped

in swinging before the last syllable fell.

"What the hell was the puppy waiting for?" he roared, his expression dark as storm clouds. "Did there

have to be a fucking massacre before he thought we'd be interested in what was going on?"

"Walker already explained that," Missy said. Her voice stayed serene and quiet, but no one could

mistake the steel in it. "He didn't think it was that unusual, and you need to calm down."

"I'm about as fucking calm as I'm likely to get in the middle of a goddamned crisis."

"Which makes it a particular relief that you passed on the opportunity to head the Council," Rafael said.

He and Tess sat on the sofa in Graham's office at Vircolac. They had rushed over in response to Walker's

succinct and urgent cell-phone call and arrived at the club hot on Walker's and Fiona's heels. "The last

thing they need to hear at the moment is your panicked rantings."

"No," snarled the alpha, "the last thing they need to hear is that Others around the city are slaughtering

defenseless humans. That should make our negotiations really pleasant."

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"They won't hear any such thing, because no one is going to tell them."

Graham shoved a hand through his hair and looked about half a step away from yanking it all out by the

roots. Just to keep his mind off his pain. "Right, because a series of gruesome and suspicious deaths will

be so easy to keep out of the human public's eye. Damn it, the occasional death we can handle. We have

our bad seeds the same as the humans, and the fact that we choose to deal with them ourselves rather

than turning them over to the human authorities doesn't mean we're any more tolerant of murder. But a

series of deaths isn't occasional, and it couldn't come at a worse time. If the human delegation hears

about this, the talks are over."

Tess snorted. "Why would they get suspicious? This is New York City. People die in gruesome and

unexplained ways at least five times every day."

"Not at the hands of Others, they don't."

"And they didn't this time, either," Rafe pointed out calmly and decidedly. "Thanks to Fiona, we already

know that these humans died at the hands of a demon. Others aren't to blame, and we can say that with

certainty to anyone who might become concerned. You're right that alerting the human delegation would

lead to nothing more than broken negotiations and a frenzied witch hunt. But that fails to solve our

problem. We need to find the demon."

"Demons. Plural." Fiona stepped out from behind Walker's shoulders.

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